Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 26 May 2012 14:59:14 +0100 | From | Alan Cox <> | Subject | Re: LIS331DLH accelerometer driver, IIO or not? |
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> > Make it an IIO driver and then we can delete the misc driver, which > > shouldn't have snuck in there in the first place :) > > > > To be more fair to the misc driver, I wouldn't say it snucked in there, > but more "it ended up there as the least worse place" ;-)
Because IIO spent forever in staging, as well as blocking lots of other driver work and meaning tons of drivers are now not to be found anywhere but obscure git trees. Thankfully they didn't manage to block the LIS driver during this mess.
Until all the needed support for the LIS IIO driver exists outside of staging the driver needs to stay where it is and without IIO dependancies. It is not acceptable to cripple existing working code with staging tree dependancies.
Hopefully commit a980e046098b0a40eaff5e4e7fcde6cf035b7c06 has finally set the basis for this happening when it hits mainline.
Alan
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